Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Drax plans to turn off its two remaining coal fired power units at its North Yorkshire plant in March in order to switch the lion's share of its power generation to biomass, as it drives forward with its plan to use carbon capture technologies to become a 'carbon negative' company by 2030.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The first has to do with the carbon budget — the amount of carbon that can be emitted before the planet warms more than 1.5 The paper uses a carbon budget of 580 billion metric tons, an amount that is estimated to give only a 50 percent chance of stabilizing the global climate at 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial temperatures.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2022

Carbon-negative, self-financing and scalable are just a few words to describe BillionBricks and Architecture Brio’s PowerHYDE. The housing model won a Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction. The housing model won a Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 7, 2021

Power plant engineering and construction giant Bechtel is partnering with a renewable energies company to explore the potential of bioenergy production sites combined with carbon capture and storage. The EPC firm announced its strategic agreement with Drax to create Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) plants around the world.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

Sustainable investing is changing global supply chains: 4 key takeaways. Sustainable investing strategies have ascended quickly in the last 10 years. Morgan Global Equity Research estimated that the sustainable investing market is expected to reach $45 trillion in assets under management (AUM) by the end of the year.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

While it’s broadly recognized that a dramatic expansion of renewables is necessary to attain climate goals, this expansion also holds great potential to reduce negative impacts on rivers, and the communities and resources, such as fisheries, that depend on healthy, connected rivers.

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Solar Energy Monitor Hydropower Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 117

Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Those are the stark findings of two separate report published today, which - less than 100 days ahead of the crucial COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow - together provide a stark assessment of the potentially carbon intensive nature of the global economic recovery. Only around 10.6 Only around 10.6 per cent this year and by 2.5

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Packaging Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Biodiversity 93

R-Squared Energy

JUNE 16, 2020

as well as a surge of renewable capacity aided by legislation aimed at curbing carbon dioxide emissions. This slowdown had a negative impact on fossil fuel demand. However, existing infrastructure of fossil fuels will create some headwinds for renewables, as well as nuclear power, the world’s largest source of low-carbon energy.

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Fossil fuels Nuclear Power Carbon-negative Natural gas 60

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

These are likely to have major consequences – both positively and negatively – over the coming decade, says the group. They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. Around the world, 1.6 Changing rural demographics.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

The findings come amid soaring food and energy prices, driven in part by the conflict in Ukraine, which had been one of the world's largest wheat producers and exporters, and crippling heat waves in parts of Europe and Asia that have impacted agricultural yields.

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Agriculture Climate change Carbon-negative Soil 72

Sustainability Consulting

JULY 8, 2020

, published by a team including Lord Nicholas Stern and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz that argued that non-conditional support for high carbon industries would see a lower return on investment than green stimulus packages. Build carbon-capture-and-storage infrastructure around large industrial clusters ? They are: ?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Climate change investment had been increasing since 2015 when the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were introduced and the Paris Agreement adopted by nearly 200 countries. North America and developing Asia attracted about 200 projects each. Latin American and the Caribbean and Africa had 150 and 100 projects, respectively.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

This severe deforestation has undermined biofuels’ sustainability credentials, as these tropical forests are key absorbers of carbon dioxide. Yearly forest fires have spewed plumes of smog across Southeast Asia and put populations of already-endangered species at risk—and there is every indication the fires are getting worse.

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Building Energy Monitoring Asia Energy Monitor Carbon-negative 60

Eco-Business

APRIL 14, 2020

Singapore, April 1 2020 - Ricoh Asia Pacific (Ricoh), the Japanese multinational imaging electronics company, today launched its 14th annual Eco Action Day campaign. With climate change, it is imperative that we put sustainability at the centre of everything we do. All of us can and should play a part.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Rodgers defends meat-eating as sustainable and has spoken against measures to curb its consumption in rich countries. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

Any phase out of coal financing by HSBC is particularly significant, given the bank is the second largest funder of fossil fuels after Barclays in Europe and undertakes extensive work with the coal sector in Asia. The group touted the promise as the first time a mainstream bank had taken such a stance.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Their comments came during an early June conference touted as bringing “together Indigenous leaders, industry experts, policymakers, civil society organizations, scientists, engineers and investors to discuss and advance the strategies that take us ‘beyond zero’ into negative emissions and a recovering climate.”.

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Natural gas Climate change Organic Fossil fuels 98

Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A Time For Growth The need to reduce carbon emissions has enormous consequences for Europe, explains Carlsson. The producers of this type of equipment are mainly based in Asia. German car manufacturers Volkswagen and BMW, which now have to import batteries from Asia, have also stepped in. Photo: Nils Petter Nilsson for the FD.

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Batteries Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Europe 78

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe. A sixth company has benefited from IFC advisory services but has not received financing.

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Africa Agriculture Health Investment 89

Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Economic climate expectations have turned negative once again (declining from +27% to ?53%). Across the EU, 53% have already invested in tackling the impact of weather events and dealing with the process of reducing carbon emissions. 32% consider less polluting business areas & tech ??Read Read the full EIB survey??

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Investment Energy Energy Carbon-negative 64

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A recent study has found it is currently “not feasible” for the global livestock industry to sequester enough carbon to cancel out its planet-warming emissions — and that policy efforts geared toward that goal may be deeply misguided. 135 gigatons is roughly equal to all the carbon lost due to agriculture over the past 12,000 years.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

As underscored by recent flooding, heatwaves, and wildfires across parts of North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, the report makes clear that climate change is accelerating and intensifying across every region of the planet. Natural carbon sinks become less effective as emissions rise. by the 2100.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 19, 2021

But as sterile as those labs may appear, they have a dirty secret: immense carbon footprints. We're seeing an acceleration of interest and excitement about sustainability through the pandemic, an overall awakening of the life science industry to sustainability. According to the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2020

The Tokyo government has argued that its relatively high levels of energy efficiency across the economy and its already sizeable renewables industry means the country faces a bigger challenge than some comparable economies as it looks to cut emissions, given many of the low carbon 'low-hanging fruits' have been picked.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2020

As burger wars wage in Brussels over whether plant-based products can deploy terminology traditionally used for meat and dairy, some of the world's most prolific meat producers have been gobbling up small plant-based start-ups in order to launch their own low carbon meat lines. This year there has been quite a big shift," Verkuil says. "On

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Following the investigation, the company issued a statement expressing confidence that its “biomass is sustainable and legally harvested.” The wood pellets Drax produces are treated as “carbon neutral” under international accounting rules, based on an assumption that new-growth trees will capture the carbon lost by wood burnt for electricity.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

billion people live in areas that are "highly vulnerable" to climate change, key ecosystems are losing their ability to store carbon, many low lying areas are facing a future of inundation, and millions of people face drastically increased risk of deadly heatwaves, floods, and droughts. As the report makes clear, between 3.3 billion and 3.6

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

If I, a privileged member of society, am having such a difficult time managing finances and trying to be sustainable, how can we expect people from underprivileged backgrounds to be on this spectrum? We need to develop a model that helps people to generate income without widening their carbon footprint or placing further pressure on the land.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 22, 2021

GreenFin 21 and the 5 cornerstones of sustainable finance. The question he put to me during his introduction gave me pause: "Do I need sustainable finance skills on my resume?". The question he put to me during his introduction gave me pause: "Do I need sustainable finance skills on my resume?". Heather Clancy. That is No.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Joshua Tosteson, COO of climate conservation marketing company Everland, offers a defense of REDD+ carbon offsets. It is by now well recognised that nature-based climate solutions can provide more than a third of the carbon reductions needed to keep global warming below 2C, the target agreed at the Paris climate talks.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Replacing coal with gas for power generation in Asia's developing markets contributes to eight per cent of global emission reductions under our AET-2 scenario," said Massimo Di-Odoardo, vice president for global gas and LNG. By 2050, Brent may slide to $10-$18, Wood Mackenzie said.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Unfortunately, all kinds of positive (or negative?) With the Northern sea routes available all year, costs for transporting goods (especially from Asia to Europe and the U.S.) Just to give an example, for journeys between Europe and Asia, the Northern Sea Route can already be two to three weeks faster than the Suez Canal.

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Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Methane Building Energy Monitoring 78

Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

Paris Olympics plans to halve carbon footprint of meals served at the Games. Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet this week unveiled the catering strategy for the upcoming Olympic Games in the French capital, revealing a goal to halve the average carbon footprint of meals served during the Games.

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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 36

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

To put it into perspective, one cotton t-shirt uses enough drinking water to sustain one human for three years; 2,700 litres. Rather than dosing wastewater with chemicals, the water percolates through a carbon-based media which the organic pollutants ‘stick’ to. The fashion industry is reliant on water.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Climate crisis is forcing countries to review both their security strategies and their military sustainability, writes University of Oxford lecturer Timothy Clack. New trade routes are emerging, the Northern Sea Route (NSR), for example, is projected to rival Suez Canal traffic and shift trade flows between Asia and Europe.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 19, 2021

But as sterile as those labs may appear, they have a dirty secret: immense carbon footprints. ” We’re seeing an acceleration of interest and excitement about sustainability through the pandemic, an overall awakening of the life science industry to sustainability. According to the U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

A constant stream of negative news risks giving rise to hopelessness and nihilism, it is argued , which benefits nobody and undermines efforts to tackle the very real problems the world still faces. Without keeping carbon in the ground, there's no way that we can achieve these climate goals. Political advocacy.

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